Medea (1969)
It's a movie about a woman who beheads her brother, stabs her children, and sends her lover's wife up in flames. For Maria Callas, it's a natural.
Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.
- Date of release
- 1969-12-28
- TMDB
- 6.7 / 10 (196)
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Genres
- Drama, Fantasy
- Director
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
Casting
- Maria Callas — Medea
- Massimo Girotti — Creonte
- Laurent Terzieff — Chirone
- Giuseppe Gentile — Giasone
- Margareth Clémenti — Glauce
- Paul Jabara — Pelias
- Gerard Weiss — Second Centaur
- Sergio Tramonti — Apsirto, Medea's Brother
- Luigi Barbini — Argonaut
- Gian Paolo Durgar
- Luigi Masironi — Jason at 5
- Michelangelo Masironi — Jason at 13
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